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Bonk

The Curious Coupling Of Sex And Science

By Mary Roach

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| eBook | 9781847676061

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Few things are as fundamental to human happiness as sex, and few writers are as entertaining about the subject as Mary Roach. Can a woman think herself to orgasm? Is your penis three inches longer than you think? Why doesn't Viagra help women - or, for that matter, pandas? Does orgasm boost fertilitContinue

Few things are as fundamental to human happiness as sex, and few writers are as entertaining about the subject as Mary Roach. Can a woman think herself to orgasm? Is your penis three inches longer than you think? Why doesn't Viagra help women - or, for that matter, pandas? Does orgasm boost fertility? Or cure hiccups? The study of sexual physiology - what happens, and why, and how to make it happen better - has been taking place behind closed doors for hundreds of years. In this fascinating and funny book, Mary Roach steps inside laboratories, brothels, pig farms, sex-toy R&D labs - even Alfred Kinsey's attic - to tell us everything we wanted to know about sex, and a lot we'd never even thought to ask.

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    In her previous books, “Stiff” and a follow-up, “Spook,” Mary Roach set out to make creepy topics (cadavers, the afterlife) fun. In “Bonk,” she turns to sex, covering such territory as dried animal excreta used as vaginal “drying agents”; a rat’s tai ... (read full critics)

    nytimes published on Sat, 18 Sep 2010

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  • Once again Mary Roach has penned a humorous, informative book. This time she takes on sex, and she does her usual great job of providing interesting scientific facts in a manner that keeps you laughing out loud.

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